There is the “shrimp Jesus” fad
My favorite quote from this article on weird pictures circulating on Facebook: “Because if you see the comments of these friggin shrimp Jesuses, it’s all people going ‘Amen,’” Thayer said. “I don’t think anybody is going ‘Hallelujah’ for our shrimp lord.”
The giant things in Kandahar fad
People continue to be shockingly, depressingly credulous about AI generated images, many of which go viral from some AI Facebook groups I follow. The latest ones to spread like wildfire are the last Irish Greyhound:
and the Giant of Kandahar:
To be clear, the original creators are posting them in AI-specific groups, never trying to convince people that they are real. But others share the images different places and people fall for it. The people in the AI groups, of course, think it is hil…
The old woman crochet fad
Another one getting thousands of comments and thousands of shares from credulous admirers is an old woman knitting a giant cat. If details of the cat didn’t immediately expose it for an AI, the old lady’ feet definitely should have. But despite the wide press coverage of AI (and, hell, the decades of existence of Photoshop) apparently there are vast numbers of people not even primed for the concept of maybe a photo being unreliable.
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The crochet kitties have made it to Snopes.
The grandma in coffee table fad
And many more that have come and gone over the past couple of years, becoming more sophisticated with time. Someone comes up with a prompt that produces interesting results, other people copy or modify or parody it for a time, then move on to the next idea.
As for the responses, you can bet most of the short ones at least are bots or paid comment farms .